The Lemmatisation of Old English Comparative Adverbs
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Universidad de La Rioja
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ISSN: 1885-9089
Year of publication: 2020
Volume: 19
Issue: 2
Pages: 1-23
Type: Article
More publications in: RAEL: revista electrónica de lingüística aplicada
Abstract
This paper presents a pilot study in the lemmatisation of Old English comparative adverbs. This research is a further contribution to the lemmatisation methodology implemented in the OE verbal classes. The adverbs graded for the comparative have been chosen for this study. The data have been retrieved from The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose and The York- Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Poetry. The starting point of this study is the automatic extraction of the forms morphologically tagged with the ADVR label (comparative adverbs). Secondly, the resulting forms are manually assigned the lemma provided by the lexical database of Old English Nerthus. Thirdly, the results are compared with Seelig (1930) and with the Dictionary of Old English in order to verify the lemma assignment and disambiguate doubtful cases. The conclusions insist on the applicability of the lemmatisation method to all non-verbal categories of Old English.
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